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One thing D&D editions have gradually shifted to is less "punish for a choice" and more "not encourage your choice" -- subtle but effective, which means for example you really shouldn't make things worse for PCs for their class choices, but not give them as much of a bonus. I'm not sure how this...

This bugs me but it's also a challenge even with party makeup. There's a running joke that our warlock and life cleric do not get along, but the warlock basically kinda/sorta "hides" using souls and torturing them, etc. as per standard hexblade stuff, and the cleric kinda/sorta looks the other...

Yeah, I get it, that in some cases dice may not work (small table space being one of them), but generally speaking, dice reigns supreme for a reason. I do enjoy other mechanics where thematically appropriate -- poker chips and playing cards for Deadlands, for example, or Jenga for Dread. But...

At this point you and I are probably reinforcing each other's false memories ahahah. But, let's refer to the artist as a source: The Ghoul Ronson's book: https://www.amazon.com/Ghoul-Marc-Ronson/dp/1555471536 And of course EN World is often the best source for these questions: What book is...

It may have been a black-and-white version interior featuring with a scenario featuring ghouls, because the Egyptian theme behind the ghoul is new to me, and in color that's obvious.

As much as I love dice, I'm always open to trying other randomizers. Enter these spinners. Dice Tower Spinner The concept is definitely intriguing. It's essentially a spinning tower that houses all six standard RPG dice (D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, and D20) in one place. The idea is to spin the...

For some reason, I was absolutely positive this was supposed to be the picture Pickman was painting in Pickman's Model. I suspect it's been on the cover of a Call of Cthulhu adventure featuring ghouls at some point, but to my surprise it's actually not supposed to be that painting as described...

This is a really good one I used in my campaign, where the powerful magic item was part of a ritual that had to be sacrificed. By the time the PCs were high enough level, they had more than one powerful sword, armor, etc. so they had to sacrifice one of them. To your point, can't use it often...

So much this. My favorite movie: Cube (1997 film) - Wikipedia But in reality the only person who "gets" the big dungeon and how it works is the DM. Half the fun is the PCs figuring out how it works and realizing they're stuck in it (which is why the first movie pivots on the protagonists not...

I'm always on the prowl for Steampunk-themed dice for my artificer characters, but there's an eternal battle between legibility and design. When it comes to branding dice like this, you have two options: put something in the dice or change the outside of the dice. Let's take a look. Galaxy...

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It's old hat now, but before the explosion of Star Wars in media, there were several prior influential franchises on movies, and one of those waves was Tarzan from the 30s through the 60s. Drawn from Edgar Rice Burroughs' stories (but significantly different in that Tarzan speaks normally in the...

Dragon Magazine #119 has a Beastmaster class. It's a barbarian + rogue (think Tarzan) "NPC class" plus Beastmaster movie-tropes with charm animals and at higher levels charm monsters and wereform control (?) and oh yeah dragonriding (!).

Your hopes need not go higher, because there is indeed!

This is what I get for looking at it on a small screen when editing. Apologies, fixed (and changed the cover graphic too). Thanks for pointing this out!